Paperless-ngx Work & team· Instead of Evernote
Document management for the paperless office: scan, recognise text, tag, find again.
Monica
A personal CRM for friends and family: birthdays, conversations and the message you keep meaning to send.
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What Monica does
Monica remembers what you know about the people in your life: birthdays, kids, preferences, the last conversation and what you promised. Not a CRM for business — one for you.
Reminders nudge you when a call is due; the journal and notes keep what would otherwise slip away.
Contacts with notes, life events and relationships- Reminders for birthdays and conversations
- Journal and tasks per person
- vCard import and export at any time
Good to know before the first start. The first visit creates your account. You can then close registration so nobody else signs up on your instance.
Monica instead of Dex
What you get out of it
- Notes about people stay with you, not with a service
- Reminders for birthdays and calls that are due
- Contacts in and out as vCard
| Dex and Podless | Dex | On Podless |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | DexOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | DexNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | DexPer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | DexUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | DexAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | DexYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
Additional information
- Category
- Work & team
- Replaces
- Dex, Contacts apps, Clay
- Recommended size
- 1 cores · 2 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage
- Estimated per month
- €4.00 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.
- Source
- monicahq/monica
Common questions
At the recommended size (1 cores · 2 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage) about €4.00 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Monica and you only pay for storage.
No. No server, no Docker, no terminal commands. You click start and Monica runs. Updates are tested on our own instances first and then rolled out.
In your own Monica instance on servers in Germany and France; bulk storage sits in Frankfurt. Add your own S3 bucket and we back up there daily, encrypted.
Monica is open source and keeps running on your own server. You fetch the files over a time-limited SFTP access and reach the database with the credentials from the dashboard.
